Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of…

- Linda Darling-Hammond

Life doesn't come with four choices.

- Linda Darling-Hammond

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone…

- Linda Darling-Hammond

In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand …

- Linda Darling-Hammond

We can't fire our way to Finland.

- Linda Darling-Hammond

A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and…

- Linda Darling-Hammond

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

- Linda Darling-Hammond